| Show THE COMING CAMPAIGN THE FIRST MEETING HELD TO PERFECT arrangements secretary rumored lo 10 retire from the cabinet correspondence or the ENQUIRER representative spinola one of the shrewdest democratic bembera of congress predicts a majority in new york city of more than for cleveland and thurman mr spinola speaks from knowledge of the political situation in tew york city haying resided there all his life and having been one of the leaders in the party since he became old enough to vote who the republicans will put up to be slaughtered is not yet apparent john sherman is far in the lead having purchased all the delegates that could be had and ho is prepared with unlimited cash furnished doubtless by his wall street friends to go into the delegate market at chicago and outbid all competitors for a sufficient number to ensure his nomination it is hardly likely that the convention will be foolish enough to nominate sherman with him at the head of the republican ticket the fight would not bo spirited enough to make it interesting cleveland would beat him as badly as grant did greely in 1872 besides sherman no other candidate has any considerable following and from opinions expressed by loading republicans here it is probable that the nomination will be the result of combinations made after the convention meets li that should bo the case it would be an absurdity to even attempt to make an intelligent guess as to who tho nominee will be bat I 1 have no hesitation in saying that it wil not be john sherman two thirds of the republican senators have already left for chicago to take part in the national convention quite as large a percentage oi members of the would have gone except for the refusal by mr mills to allow the tariff bill to be laid over for a week indian commissioner atkins has tendered his resignation and gone to tennessee where he proposes 10 make an active personal convass for his election to the united states senate two speeches were made on the fisheries treaty this week one by senator morgan for and the other by senator hale against it its further consideration haa been postponed until the dinst judge thurman who was expected in washington this week has post pined his visit until bater in order to be here when the national committee meets for organization and to take part in the grand ratification meeting which is to be held in this city on the evening of the dinst the democratic congressional executive committee held their first meeting this week to make arrangements for the coming campaign there was a full attendance with senator kenna in the chair A subcommittee consisting of senator kenna representatives loyd S bryce of new york and S 0 fisher of michigan was appointed to meet and confer with the national committee which is to meet here on the dinst the object of this conference is to so arrange things that the work of the two committees the national and the congressional will not conflict with each other senator kenna after the meeting said to your correspondent we shall shortly have permanent headquarters in this city this was held simply to appoint this committee of conference we are sending out thousands of documents and we do not care to duplicate the work of the national committee nor have them duplicate ours hence an understanding of the pro gramme of each is necessary in order to bring out that harmonious work that always beads to success every one at our meeting was sanguine as to the result oi the fight upon which we are now entering we have a magnificent ticket and it will create great enthusiasm with such a man as thurman foi the second place can indicate noth ing else than a powerful and winning ticket the republicans are all fa sea they dont know what they art going to do at chicago whether chev will cut a platform to fir the canda date or pick a candidate to fit the platform senator daniel of virginia expressed his opinion as follows there is no mistaking oui advantageous position we are go ing into this campaign on a high plane and on groat issues get balow the surface and there can be no doubt to observing men of the triumphant election of cleveland and thurman there is a rumor hero that secre ary whitney mill retire from the cabinet mr whitney neither affirms nor denies the report washington june |
